China News Service, Paris, March 1 (Reporter Li Yang) On the 1st local time, the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced for corruption, which attracted attention from all walks of life in France.
The court announced the verdict of the case on the afternoon of the 1st, Paris time, and decided to convict Sarkozy and impose a penalty.
According to the verdict, Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for two years.
According to a previous report by Agence France-Presse, Sarkozy was accused in 2013 of illegally accepting funding from the late heir Liliana Bettencourt of L'Oréal in the 2007 presidential campaign.
Sarkozy was also accused of obtaining inside information related to the above-mentioned case and promising to obtain a "easy Monaco position" for Azibel.
At that time, Azibel was an influential criminal court judge and was believed to be aware of the progress of the case.
French prosecutors monitored the phone calls between Sarkozy and his lawyer Herzog.
According to the prosecution's indictment, Sarkozy once told Herzog that he would "promote" Azibel.
Sarkozy himself denied this on different occasions and said that Azibel did not obtain any position in Monaco.
French public opinion commented on this, saying that this is the first time since the establishment of the Fifth Republic of France in 1958 that a former head of state of France has been sentenced and will serve a sentence on corruption charges.
Sarkozy was born in Paris in 1955 and served as President of France from 2007 to 2012.
He has been involved in lawsuits in recent years, but he still shows up frequently in public.
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